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- No specific author is known
- Believed to be written between the 8th and 11th century
- Length: 3,183 lines
- It is the only surviving example of the Anglo-Saxon heroic epic form of poetry.
- Believed to be an accurate representation of early Anglo-Saxon oral poetic style, although it is still under debate
- Beowulf is a heroic warrior from the Geat people, who live in modern-day Sweden
- Battles three monsters: Grendel, Grendel's mother and a dragon
- Events take place in the late 5th and early 6th centuries
- John C. Gardner's 1971 novel, Grendel, is a more sympathetically human narrative told from monster's point of view.
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Beowulf is both the title of an epic poem written in Old English and the name of the poem's heroic main character. It was written between the 8th and 11th centuries A.D., and it is the oldest surviving piece of English literature. The general events of the poem were adapted into an animated action-adventure movie in 2007.
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Movie Quotes
- King Hrothgar: "She's not my curse, not anymore."
- Beowulf: "I am Ripper... Tearer... Slasher... Gouger. I am the Teeth in the Darkness, the Talons in the Night. Mine is Strength... and Lust... and Power! I AM BEOWULF!"
- Beowulf: "The time of heroes is dead: the christ god has killed it, leaving nothing but weeping martyrs and fear and shame."
- Wiglaf: "Odin's swifan balls!"
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Beowulf is both the title of an epic poem written in Old English and the name of the poem's heroic main character. It was written between the 8th and 11th centuries A.D., and it is the oldest surviving piece of English literature. The general events of the poem were adapted into an animated action-adventure movie in 2007.
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Fast Facts
- No specific author is known
- Believed to be written between the 8th and 11th century
- Length: 3,183 lines
- It is the only surviving example of the Anglo-Saxon heroic epic form of poetry.
- Believed to be an accurate representation of early Anglo-Saxon oral poetic style, although it is still under debate
- Beowulf is a heroic warrior from the Geat people, who live in modern-day Sweden
- Battles three monsters: Grendel, Grendel's mother and a dragon
- Events take place in the late 5th and early 6th centuries
- John C. Gardner's 1971 novel, Grendel, is a more sympathetically human narrative told from monster's point of view.
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Movie Quotes
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- King Hrothgar: "She's not my curse, not anymore."
- Beowulf: "I am Ripper... Tearer... Slasher... Gouger. I am the Teeth in the Darkness, the Talons in the Night. Mine is Strength... and Lust... and Power! I AM BEOWULF!"
- Beowulf: "The time of heroes is dead: the christ god has killed it, leaving nothing but weeping martyrs and fear and shame."
- Wiglaf: "Odin's swifan balls!"
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Beowulf Quotes
- Wikiquote: Beowulf
- "Lo! We have heard of the glory of the kings of the people of the Spear-Danes in days of yore – how those princes did valorous deeds!"
- "Better is it for each one of us that he should avenge his friend, than greatly mourn. Each of us must expect an end of living in this world; let him who may win glory before death: for that is best at last for the departed warrior." -Line 1385
- "Incline not to arrogance, famous warrior! Now shall the fullness of thy strength last for a while. But soon after it shall be, that malady or sword shall cut thee off from power, or the embrace of fire or welling of a flood, or onset with the knife, or arrow's flight, or hideous old age. Or brightness of eyes shall diminish and grow dim, and at length it shall be that death shall overpower thee, noble chieftain!" -Line 1761
- BookRags: Beowulf Quotes
- "'His father's warrior were wound round his heart/ With golden rings, bound to their prince/ By his father's treasure. So young men build/ The future, wisely open-handed in peace,/ Protected in war; so warriors earn/ Their fame, and wealth is shaped with a sword." -pg. 24, lines 20-25
- "Nor have I ever seen,/ Out of all the men on earth, one greater/ Than has come with you; no commoner carries/ Such weapons, unless his appearance, and his beauty,/ Are both lies." -pg. 31, lines 248-250
- "Twelve winters of grief for Hrothgar, king/ Of the Danes, sorrow heaped at his door/ By hell-forged hands, His misery leaped/ The seas, was told and sung in all/ Men's ears" -pg. 28, lines 147-151
- "Grendel's hatred began,/...the monster relished his savage war/ On the Danes, keeping the bloody feud/ Alive, seeking no peace, offering/ No truce, accepting no settlement, no price/ In gold or land, and paying the living/ For one crime only with another. No one/ Waited for reparation from his plundering claws:/ That shadow of death hunted in the darkness,/ Stalked Hrothgar's warriors." -pg. 28, lines 151-160
- "And if death does take me, send the hammered/ Mail of my armor to Higlac, return/ The inheritance I had from Hrethel, and he/ From Wayland. Fate will unwind as it must!" -pg. 37, lines 452-455
- "Beowulf, you've come to us in friendship, and because/ Of the reception your father found at court./ Edgetho had begun a bitter feud,/ Killing Hathlaf, a Wulfing warrior: /Your father's countrymen were afraid of war,/ If he returned to his home, and they turned him away." -pg. 37, lines 457-462
- "God's bright beacon/ Appeared in the east, the water lay still,/ And at last I could see the land, wind-swept/ Cliff-walls to the coast. Fate saves/ The living when they drive away death by themselves!" -pg. 41, lines 569-574
- NovelGuide: Beowulf Top Ten Quotes
- "They stretched their beloved lord in his boat, laid out by the mast, midships. the great ring-giver. Far-fetched treasures were piled on him, and precious gear. " (lines 34-37)
- "In off the moors, down through the mist bands .God-cursed Grendel came greedily loping. The bane of the race of men roamed forth, hunting for prey in the high hall." -(lines 710-13)
- "He has done his worst but the wound will end him. He is hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain, limping and looped in it. Like a man outlawed. for wickedness, he must await. the mighty judgement of God in majesty." -(lines 974-78)
- Spark Notes: Beowulf Important Quotes Explained
- "Wise sir, do not grieve. It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end. Let whoever can win glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark." -(1384–1389)
- "Beowulf got ready, donned his war-gear, indifferent to death; his mighty, hand-forged, fine-webbed mail would soon meet with the menace underwater. It would keep the bone-cage of his body safe: . . . [His helmet] was of beaten gold, princely headgear hooped and hasped by a weapon-smith who had worked wonders. . ." -(1442–1452)
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